The Honeybadger has moved into
a new dimension! We are now BEE compliant and we are ready for the new era
in beekeeping in South Africa.

Our premises in Kameeldrift East,
Pretoria South Africa offer more
than 50 square meters exhibition space as well as a lecture room that can
seat 20 learners at tables.

Join us for a cup of coffee,
tea or ice cold filtered water while you find everything
you need for beekeeping: from hives, protective clothing, and tools to all
honey bottling equipment. We also sell pure South African Honey in our
Honey Shoppe!

Sidwell and Theresia
are ready to assist you with their knowledge and experience and to give you
tips and show you the techniques in beekeeping.

'Bee' informed

The media is full of articles
on imported honey tainted with antibiotics. This is good news for
consumers as well as for producers. Unscrupulous importers are now more
careful but unfortunately innocent labels was taken of the shelves causing
irreparable damage to certain labels.

The price of quality South
African honey has increased and consumers can know that retail honey
prices below R50 per kg (August 2007) are possibly either imported or
blended with imported honey. Even well known retailers with honey branded
in their name are also known to receive imported honey although they deny
this. Their suppliers are contractually bound to supply honey at a certain
price and with producer prices rising they have n choice but to blend
cheat poor quality imported honey with South African honey. (the honey
regulations stipulate that if a jar of honey contains 50% South African
honey, it can be labeled as South African honey) Most labels now carry the
countries of origin but be assured that although it mentions many
countries, the contents probably comes only from China.

Consumers are advised only to buy pure South African honey. We can supply in quantity.
Contact us

WEBSITE UPDATE

You may have noted that
our site were down for a couple a days and that gave us the opportunity to
do necessary maintenance and upgrades. We hope to do more regular updates and to ad a lot more articles
and all previous copies of the South African Bee Journal. For more information,
click here

'Bee' prepared

We offer a wide range of
beekeeping equipment. You will find
everything you need, including hives, hive components, protective
beekeeper's clothing, filters for honey and wax, honey packaging and
more.... (Prices included and updated 1 September 2007) New equipment arriving from France
Nov 2007!

A honeybadger or ratel is known as one of
the main culprits for breaking into hives for brood and honey.
Click
here to read more about this fascinating creature, or follow our link
to articles and see what other fascinating information we have in our
knowledge base.

Attention
Beekeepers, we buy clean beeswax and capping in all quantities. Contact us
for more information